Starfield Bug Forces Players to Change Gender to Fire Guns

Games@sh.itjust.works – 118 points – 10 months ago

Starfield players looking for how to fix a bug that breaks guns figured out changing their character's gender is a solution.

THIS IS THE FUTURE LIBERALS WANT /s

Brb, starting on HRT so I can regain my 2nd Amendment right.

Gives a whole new meaning to the word "deadname"

Be gay, do crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink\_Pistols

The Pink Pistols are an LGBTQ gun rights organization in the United States and Canada. Their motto is "Pick on someone your own caliber".[1]

Pink Pistols enrollment up.

I'm vaguely curious what gets re-initialized by changing gender to fix this.

Apparently it's nothing to do with changing the gender, only opening the character creation screen. So you can open that screen and then just close it, and it should work again. Weird bug though!

The article says that the console command to swap genders also works.

I haven't experienced it so I have no clue.

Wonder if that pseudo opens the screen.

It runs the change character script, which resets animations.

It might alter some of the same variables causing this bug.

It probably triggers a write of the character data which ends up overwriting some bad value that is actually causing the problem.

You haven't experienced swapping genders? All the cool kids are doing it.

This is why you don't use global variables, kids!

If starfield works like every other Bethesda game, the game can't actually change the gender directly, it instead remakes your entire character, which will reset whatever is causing the bug

Prgramng!

I had a bug caused by the shipselling bug where each time I went through a load screen my gender and appearance randomized. So I can't even begin to guess how all the noodles are connected.

man that bald english dude has to be losing his damn mind rn

Poor Vin Diesel

That baby face or something like that

Bethesda. Bethesda never changes. But seriously this has to be one of the odder bugs I've seen in a Bethesda game.

Oh that's not going to cause any conspiracy theories at all lol!

The article links to a story about some YouTubers who went on a rant about the optional pronoun feature, so yeah, I could absolutely see this getting blown out of proportion.

So animations get fucked up, and you can fix them with racemenu? Sounds about right, anyone with loverslab experience could tell you that.

Loverslab Starfield confirmed

You jest, but it has an entire section dedicated to it. And just look at the size of this thread. https://www.loverslab.com/topic/217203-sex-mod-framework-development-discussion/